STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 624, sig. 109-4/372 (poškozeno) Page 18 · 18 of 15
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 624, sig. 109-4/372 (damaged)
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3 to the Nazis themselves, to whose faithful helpers he has swollen up, His position l939 would still be to be mentioned, then Hácha had to stand on the side of the czech people without exception and tried to defend his interest and to relieve his suffering. Instead, this gentleman not only looks calmly at how tens of thousands of national Czechs put their lives at risk every day and murder entire Czech families, but also makes himself the spokesman of the Nazi oppressors. They are all from one stroke, Moravec, Hácha with his colleagues and all that the Czech puppet government represents in the hands of the Germans. We must take every individual from this honorable circle to the full responsibility for his anti-popular activity. And in this sense the Czech also has. In London, the government has already recognized that no one who cooperates with the oppressors will one day escape his punishment. The national heroes from the ranks of the Czech people have earned themselves not only for their own fatherland but also for the whole of Europe. That is why today we pay special tribute to their heroic support and the determined struggle with which the Czech people so strongly contribute to the victory of the great democratic world alliance. And the whole world is also aware of this and is admiringly focusing its attention on the resistance of the Czech people." Even when the first news of the Prague events arrived in London, the chairman of the Czechoslovakian Steats Council convened an extraordinary meeting of this institution. The Council of State, the heroes of the homeland, drew the attention of the whole world to the bestial crimes committed by the Nazis. And at that time, in a special note, the strict protest against all these atrocities, culminating in the murder of entire innocent Czech families, had already been pronounced. Women, children and old people are not spared by the bloody hand of the Nazi executioners, and already at that time the Czechoslovak government has given responsibility not only to the German government, but also to German officials and police bodies, and also to all those who, from the ranks of the